The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-03
MORE STRIKES.
Strike OF LongshOremen and Coal Handlers
in New YOrk-AbouE Twenty Thousand

Strike OF Longshoremen and Coal Handlers
in New York-Aboug Twenty Thousand
Men Involved.
NEW YORK, Jan. 27-At one D. m vester-
day all the longShOremen working by the
! hour employed by the National and Cunard
Steamship Companies went on a strike.
/ They had been "a work up to twelve O'Clock,
and on gong away for dinner gaze no init
nation to their superintendent that they
did not intend TO return.
The longshOremen employed oy the Ma
tional line struck because the company had
employed Italians to work in the grain ele-
vator. The grain had been shipped, it was
said, bv nOn-uniOn men.
! The trouble on the Cunard dock was that
the superintendent lad taken some of the
half time hands and gwen them steady en-
| plcyment at the rate of SIG week The
men vino worked by the hour said that the
new weekly men would be eventually COM
| PEELED to Unload the barges or at least that
an attempt would be made to have them ,
so.
| The longshorerlen who work for the Prov
idence line have demanded thirty cents an
| hour. They have been getting twenty-five
| cents. Some new men were taken and sew
| eral policemen were sent to see that they
were not molested. The line employs about
| one hundred time men and forty weekly
hands who get = per day. An e1fOr: VIII
| be made TO get the weekly men out On a
| strike also.
\ party of Poles from Wilkesbarrc, Pa,
while on their way to HoboScn this morn
| ing to take the Bremen steamship, Trave,
were assaulted by 4 gang OF coal strikers
and three of the party severely injured
| one 50 badly that he may not recover.
! They were evidently taken by the strikers
| for ''scabs'' as the assault was unprovoked.
The struggle Of the striking longshore-
men, that has to certain extent become
merged into that of the coal handlers, was
transferred to a field of wider proportions
when it became known that the Knights OF
Labor had decided that no coal of any sort
should be handled in the port of New York
by union men on the ground that all coal IN
the harbor now has been put aboard the
barges by nOn-uniOn men. Thus tho trans
ferring of coal to the transatlantic and
coastwise steamships can not be under
taken by any union man, and the supply of
coal to consumers in this city, Brooklyn
and other points around the harbOr Of New
York can not be replenishcd by union men.
The effect of the carrying out of the order
of the knights not to load coal became I'M
mediately apparent all along the river front,
alithe ocean and coastwise steamship lines,
with few exceptions, suddenly finding
themselves deserted by the union longshore-
men whenever there was coal to be trans
ferred to the vessels. The exceptions were
a few lines which employ their coal shovel
ers by the week.
About thirty longshoremen employed on
the barge a. d. Kilduf. at Hoboken, struck
yesterday morning in sympathy with the
other strikers. They were visited by walk
ing delegates. The barge was dischargin2
coal at the chute of the Hoboken Ferry
Company, and unless the company receives
a supply of coal IN few days the ferry
boats will be obliged to stop running.
Meetings were held by the local assem-
blies in which are the bag sewers, the coal
handlers. grain handlers, caulkers, tin
smiths, ship carpenters, pump Triggers, tug
boat deck-hands and engineers, longshore-
men and railroad brakeInen, last evening"
and it was decided 70 gait work for three
days. The statistician of District Assem-
bly, - says that there are upward of 23GG
men IN these local assemblies, but they are
not all employed on the North River front
His computation is. about II, 90 men will stop
work. Probably 800 or 1.0UO men will be
permitted to look after property on the river
essary. The District Assembly asked thai
all of the Il, 900 men should remain at theiI
homes until evening, when as many as felt
disposed might attend the meeting in Cooper
Union. The statistician added that the re
quest OF the executive committee would bs
rigidly obeyed. The men had been counselec
and would surely refrain from the use o.
violence.
ELECTRIC LIGHT wORKMEN STRIKE.
NEWARK, n j.. Jan. 27.-Between three
and five hundred hands employed in the Ed.
ison electric works at Harrison struck yes,
terday because of the discharge OF one Of
the boys, who, it was discovered, had
broken about 80 of the glass lamps stored
in the building. \ committee of the
Knights of Labor had waited on Superin
teadent Upton and demanded the boys re
instatement and the dismissal of the fore
man. This was refused and the strike was
ordered. Many of the hands attempted &c
go to work this morning, but were pre-
vented from doing 80 by the violent actions
of the strikers.
LORILLARD'S ULTIMATUM.
JERSEY CITY, n. j.. Jan. 27.-P. Lorillard !
& Co, tobacco manufacturers, issued no
tice to their striking employees last night tc !
the effect that negotiations for its settle !
ment having failed, they propose to wait ne |
longer. In order to give those who wish ar |
opportunity, they say, they will retain |
places for all who return at any time during |
the present week, promising them protec |
ton, and that they shall not suffer for hav.
ing taken part in the strike.
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